Exam 1: The Science of Psychology

Experimental psychologists investigate such basic processes as learning, memory, sensation, and perception.

The field of psychology that focuses on subjective well-being, self-determination, the relationship between emotions such as happiness and physical health, and the factors that allow individuals, communities, and societies to flourish, is ________ psychology.

Psychologists use techniques based on the intuitive method.

In an experiment to assess the effects of a new hay fever drug, two groups are used. One group is given the drug while the second group is given a pill that contains no medicine but looks and tastes exactly like the one containing the drug. The group receiving the nonmedicinal pill is called the ________ group.

The mental health professional who is least likely to hold an MD, PhD in psychology, or a PsyD, is a ________.

A scientist decides to solve a problem by collecting data through careful systematic observation, developing theories, making predictions based on those theories, and systematically testing those predictions. The scientist is using ________.

Wundt's primary experimental interest was ________.

In a research study, a psychiatrist gives depressed patients a particular drug and observes that their symptoms diminish. He concludes that the drug caused the reduction in symptoms. This experiment is flawed because it lacks a(n) ________.

Freud's ideas provided the foundation for ________.

The female psychologist who was elected and served as the first female president of the American Psychological Association in 1905 was ________.

Which of the following choices correctly matches a famous psychologist with his theoretical perspective?

Subjects in Milgram's studies were told they were taking part in studies on ________.

Abraham Maslow is most closely associated with ________ psychology.

A teacher suspects that her students are unusually quiet during her Monday morning classes because they stay up late on Sunday nights. She believes that if she monitored the times they went to bed, she would find that the sleepy ones went to bed later than the more alert ones. In scientific terms, her hunch, or suspicion of what she would find if she monitored her students, is called a ________.

Personality psychologists study mental and physical growth in humans from the prenatal period through childhood, adolescence, adulthood, and old age.

The idea that consciousness flows in a continuous stream is central to ________.

Titchener broke experience down into ________ basic elements.

A recent survey of psychological journals found that ________ percent of the articles focused on U.S. racial and ethnic minorities.

Each of the following is a specialty area within developmental psychology except ________.

Life-span psychologists focus mainly on studying ________.